I just saw something interesting - "Elephant Dream".

It appears not be a popular short film among the slashdoters. For those who had ever worked and succeeded in a competitive, guideless environment for a period of time, the following would be eerily familiar:

"Emo - a short for "emotion" represents the feeling (right brain) activities. Proog is the logical, thinking angle - his actions have (up to now) created most of the structure around them (much as the NT types have structured the real world as logical-only wins). There is distinct symbolism throughout that the two exist within a "machine" that resembles many features of what it might look like inside someone's head. Both characters create the machine around them. Proog keeps referring to left and right - the sides of the brain. Proog is desperately trying to convince the young, emerging emotional side that the world he has created is "safe" but all evidence shows us it's not at all safe. Emo seems like he's been abused, kept down by Proog.

Proog is scared of what Emo has and can do. Proog is simultaneously trying to control what Emo sees and what he believes, but also has distinct interest. Emo shows us that he has far more power than Proog to "create" the world they are in, and Proog swiftly knocks him out again."

drDugan (219551)